Alla källor som gick bort år 1789

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January 20th 1779: David Garrick (1717-1779) - English actor, writer
June 7th 1779: William Warburton (1698-1779) - English bishop, lit crit
February 14th 1780: William Blackstone (1723-1780) - English jurist
February 15th 1781: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - on philosophy and aesthetics.
April 12th 1782: Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
September 18th 1783: Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) - Swiss mathematician
July 31st 1784: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - French philosopher
December 13th 1784: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - English writer
August 2nd 1788: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - English artist

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1789

January 21st: Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723-1789) - German philosopher

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April 17th 1790: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) - writer and inventor.
July 17th 1790: Adam Smith (1723-1790) - Scottish economist
1791: Oliver Edwards (1711-1791) -
March 2nd 1791: John Wesley (1703-1791) - English religious leader
April 2nd 1791: Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)
December 5th 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of music.
February 23rd 1792: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) - English artist
July 18th 1792: John Paul Jones (1747-1792) - in the U.S. War of Independence.
October 8th 1793: John Hancock (1737-1793) - US founding father
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